Father-of-two Ian Morris, aged 59, is a chartered surveyor based in Malvern and has set up his own practice. He was educated at the same school as former Prime Minister John Major and used to be a Conservative.

Agriculture and tourism in Worcestershire, as elsewhere, continue to suffer as a direct result of the EU's Common Agricultural Policy - which was never designed to help British farmers. The foot-and-mouth epidemic escalated because our Government was forced to comply strictly with EU directives which, among other things, prohibit mass vaccination.

The slavish following of these policies by the Blair administration is estimated, by the Institute of Directors, to have cost us £20bn so far: This, we are told, has been necessary to save a meat export trade worth just £1.2bn. We will not rid ourselves of the ruinous Common Agricultural Policy, or regain control of our agricultural industry, until we withdraw from the EU completely. Who wants to visit empty fields or "set aside"?

I am most concerned that DERA is being part-privatised at all. I feel the question of security has still not been properly addressed and cannot, therefore, be in this country's best defence interests - or those of the staff who work within it.

I propose that Britain returns to being a free and independent nation - extracted from the so-called European Army and from the closed and inefficient defence system promoted by the EU: We need to work with NATO, and to retain our rightful place in world bodies like the UN instead of being represented by the EU. I want Britain to have a strong and effective defence policy and to this end the UK Independence Party would commit an extra £2.5bn per year. These measures would raise the battered morale of our armed forces and our defence industry, with obvious benefits to the staff at DERA.

The UK Independence Party's manifesto sets out a brilliant and long-overdue overhaul of our education system. The balance of power will be shifted from trendy educational bureaucrats towards school governors, head teachers, teachers themselves, and parents; teacher training will be restructured - with less emphasis on abstract educational theory and more on tried and tested teaching methods. There should be freedom of choice, and state schools should be allowed to select for academic ability or potential.

I support the need to address lax discipline and I want to see teachers unfettered from the bonds of "political correctness". In our manifesto, £1.2bn is allocated to pay for 30,000 more teachers; I would strive to ensure that the particular needs of Worcestershire were taken into account in benefiting from these proposed improvements, having due regard to the differences between urban and rural communities within the county.

The vast sum which Britain pays the EU is not receiving much publicity in this election campaign: We are currently sending £31m to Brussels every day; that is £1m an hour! This constituency alone sends £250,000 every week. At this rate we could have paid for Worcester's new hospital in four days - or we could have had a better-equipped hospital, that this county actually needs, with just five days worth of contributions.

The Institute of Directors has calculated that when Britain leaves the EU we will have an extra £20bn a year to spend on the welfare of our own people. With this saving the UK Independence party proposes to increase the NHS budget by £2bn and to raise the income of nursing staff and other health care professionals by £500m. I am confident that this would ensure everyone got the treatment they needed - at Worcester and elsewhere.

As a chartered surveyor who has previously worked in local government I wholeheartedly support the UK Independence Party's view that professional people employed in the public sector should be left to get on with their jobs - free from red-tape, political correctness, performance targets, spin-doctors, or fear of litigation. This applies equally throughout our schools, the NHS, our emergency services, and all of the other services on which we all rely. We have competent traffic engineers, capable of solving problems such as those that are all too evident in Pershore; they should be allowed to give us their professional advice, unhampered by bureaucratic interference, and the finance should be in place so that their advice can be taken.